Golden Jubilee Medal - A Petition!!

LE

Just been sent this link for the QGJM.
Whilst I know that people get peeved off that they may have missed out by a day/week/month whatever it would surely start the gong retrospective gold rush by people trying to get medals back dated (the ACSM springs to mind)

Good luck to them for trying but can't see it happening, the old boys from Egypt took 50 odd years to get theirs sorted out.

LE

So the rules change to allow a certain number of ex-whatever to get a shiny new gong? This time it's trying to change the rules for qualification to 'if you have served for 5 years'. The next change could be 'served for 2 years' then perhaps 'tried phase 1 training but failed' or even 'walked passed an AFCO and thought about going in...once'.

No chance.

"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

Old-Salt

Having done 16 years, I left the army in Jan 2002 and rejoined in Jan 2003, I put up a case saying I should get the medal cos I was still on the reserve list. I missed out as I was not officially serving on the day in Feb 2002 so I missed out by a month although I had way more than the 8 years service required. I got a polite reply from the medal office saying piss off rules is rules basically. I dont mind cos its not as if it counts for much like my other medals, dont have LSGC either but thats a lot of other stories lol. Anyway, my last GSM started giving me a hard time in mess one night for not having on my Jubilee Medal which he thought I obviosly should have had being a crusty. He was obviously short of people for the nexts months duty list. It gave me great pleasure to reply well actually Sir, I wasn't entitled to it and have a letter from the medal office to prove it, I'll fax you a copy on mon. I got pissed and gobbed off later and ended up on duties list anyway but such is life.